Media Queue Suit Over E-Mail Patent Sent To Calif.

Law360, New York (February 25, 2009, 12:00 AM EST) -- A federal judge has removed Media Queue LLC's patent infringement suit against Netflix Inc., Blockbuster Inc. and others to a federal court in California over Media Queue's objections, calling the relationship between the defendants and the district where the suit was originally filed “at best, random and minimal.”

Magistrate Judge Kimberly E. West of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma signed an order on Tuesday agreeing to transfer the case to the Northern District of California, where several of the defendants are...